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“When the young people came back and said they were in town and saw the man with what looked like a gun we were duty bound to call that in and make sure they were safe.

“Security called the police and that’s it from our side.”

Police have now released a description of the suspect. He was white with longish brown hair and a goatee beard and was wearing a black jacket and tracksuit bottoms.

A Staffordshire Police spokesman said: “We received a call from the Winter Wonderland security team on at around 7.45pm on December 21 concerning reports of a man who had approached three teenage boys with what is described as a black weapon. He then made off through the old bus station towards Iceland.